Also available at OSU-Portland and via Ecampus.

Today’s organizations—businesses, corporations, nonprofits and others—want to better utilize available information in operational, tactical, and strategic decision making. The information value of both in-house and third party data sets can now be leveraged using powerful emerging technologies. Increasingly organizations leverage advances in software interoperability, data exchange mechanisms and data mining and visualization techniques to better understand their operations, customers, and markets. This trend has become known as ‘data mining,’ ‘business analytics,’ ‘business intelligence’ or, nowadays, ‘big data.’

This certificate is targeted at three types of professionals:

• Managers seeking to expand the use of data analytics within their organizations.

• Information systems professionals charged with marshaling available organizational data for analytical processes.

• Business analytics professionals performing data analysis to support decision making, strategy formation, and operational improvement.

Certificate Code: CG14

• Integrate information technologies with data science methods to extract value from data sets.
• Think critically about the business implications, meaningfulness, and applicability of observed data patterns and analytics inferences.
• Identify opportunities, needs, and constraints for data analytics within organizational contexts.
• Select appropriate analytic tools for specific managerial issues.
• Compose data-analytic tools and concepts to create innovative data-analytic solutions.
• Demonstrate proficiency with several data analytic tools.

Certificate Code: CG14